Passages

[antnield]

British TV 'agony aunt' (and Brass Eye victim) Claire Rayner.

[MichaelB]

(and Brass Eye victim)

She fought back, though.

[dad1153]

Simon MacCorkindale (Susan George's husband and a fine actor in his own right).

[tavernier]

Susan George's husband

Lucky bastard...too bad he couldn't enjoy it longer

[fiddlesticks]

Barbara Billingsley, who spoke jive.

[Feego]

Barbara Billingsley, who spoke jive.

That scene in Airplane! is priceless! "Chump don't want the help, chump don't get the help. Jive ass dude ain't got no brains anyhow."

[antnield]

Johnny Sheffield, who played Boy in the Weissmuller Tarzan movies and later Bomba the Jungle Boy.

[dad1153]

Tom Bosley.

[mfunk9786]

NO. Much like Barbara Billingsley was everyone's mom, as someone who grew up on a heavy diet of David the Gnome and Happy Days reruns, Tom Bosley was a television father figure to me. I know it's become a huge cliche, but I always found the way Mr. Cunningham steered Richie in the right direction without ever being a cruel or nasty personality (or an anything-goes goofball) to be a perfect television representation of a good father to a teenage son. R.I.P., he'll be missed.

[tavernier]

You low-brow--don't tell me you liked Julie & Julia too?

[mfunk9786]

Sorry: only my id was a fan of Tom Bosley.

[Zot!]

I would call it an Electra complex...*rimshot*

[Mr Sausage]

Gee, mfunk, you're not just id-driven scum, you're a little girl as well! Serves you right for liking, er, a movie.

[Zot!]

Ok, fine. I retract my cheap joke and commend mfunk for his fitting eulogy to Tom Bosley.

[jbeall]

Bob Guccione, who gave the world Caligula.

[j99]

Ari-Up of 70s post punk band The Slits

[antnield]

Graham Crowden

[HarryLong]

He was still with us?
I don't know why, but I thought he'd passed some time ago.
I shall have to dig out BRITANNIA HOSPITAL...

EDIT: Per that article he'd remained active until only a couple years ago, but in TV assignments of which I was unaware.

[Feego]

He was still with us?
I don't know why, but I thought he'd passed some time ago.
I shall have to dig out BRITANNIA HOSPITAL...

EDIT: Per that article he'd remained active until only a couple years ago, but in TV assignments of which I was unaware.

He contributed a nice little interview for Criterion's release of if.... a few years back.

[antnield]

Robert Katz

[antnield]

Cinematographer N. Paul Kenworthy Jr.

[MichaelB]

He was still with us?
I don't know why, but I thought he'd passed some time ago.
I shall have to dig out BRITANNIA HOSPITAL...

EDIT: Per that article he'd remained active until only a couple years ago, but in TV assignments of which I was unaware.

Ironically, he was probably more famous in Britain post-1990 than at any time before - appearing in Lindsay Anderson films (one of which was a calamitous flop) is as nothing when set against a lead role in a popular long-running sitcom with millions of viewers.

Mind you, I had absolutely no idea who Barbara Billingsley and Tom Bosley were prior to their deaths - what's one country's national televisual wallpaper is another's very occasional late-night airing on an obscure channel.

[antnield]

Gregory Isaacs

[dad1153]

Alexander Anderson, the uncredited co-creator of "Rocky and Bullwinkle" (click the link if you haven't heard the story).

[antnield]

Joseph Stein